Remembrance Day Poems

(Voice of a Broken Lineage)

Before your first cry kissed Florida’s air,
Two weary souls crossed oceans of despair—
Your parents, Cuban hearts in exile,
Arrived in 1956, not...

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NOVEMBER 2022

Rightly so, the poppies flood
Early in the winter sky
Merrily stood in field, and this
Existence of mine has passed by
Maybe they'd watch us contend
But are...

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My son,
When the ancestors lit the candle of your destiny,
We sang for you in the wind,
We carved your name into the stars
And called you Moses...

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Today is the day
Twenty-nine years to the day
Life changed forever
...

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Missing my Parents
Both are gone
Jesus is with me
I am never alone.

Rest my dear Parents
You've done your best
Remembrance in memories
Centuries, Decades, through Destiny
All the rest.

...

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Duty calls from valleys deep and wide,
Wide like hearts where brave resolve does bide.
Bide the storms, through fire and endless rain,
Rain of trials met with...

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Dear Ma, if this letter finds
Your gentle hands, your quiet eyes,
Knowing I have fallen where silence climbs,
Beneath a blood-rubbed, broken sky.

The wind here howls like...

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Today my thoughts are on Master Sergeant Joe D.
my brother who was four years younger than me.

Growing up Brother Joe was always the battler,
he took...

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The bugle sleeps, a mournful, hollow sound, 
As silence falls upon this hallowed ground. 
For those who fell, beneath a foreign sky, 
Who gave their...

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The day is solemn
time to reflect
a thankfulness for sacrifice
Flags placed to honor
Names carved on stone
Dates of lives gone
Grace and silent prayers
No need for spoken words
shed...

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Memorial Day marks the passage of time
Of valor in battles remembered sublime
A quiet flashback of a personal loss
And fiery fields one was dashing across

The action,...

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Elsie, I 'ave just returned from my visit to see my family over seas.
Was nervous getting on the plane, but turned out to be a...

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For soldiers who died in the service of
my nation, there was made a holiday -
a time to show them remembrance and love
strewing flowers on graves...

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They do not march now,
but they still stand--
shoulder to shoulder
in quiet granite lines.

Each flag breathes
like a memory fluttering
in the hush between heartbeats.

They are not just...

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Flowers for a new day,  
Flowers for a fresh start,  
I’m embracing a new beginning,  
A way of winning.  

Flowers of...

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